Information about the amount of habitat needed to support monarchs and how it should be distributed across the landscape will have direct implications for FWS habitat restoration programs. In the St. Croix Wetland Management District (WMD), this information will inform decision making for prioritizing Partners for Fish and Wildlife Projects on private lands as well as upland restoration efforts on WPAs and partner lands. The monarch information gained from this project will be another piece of the ecological puzzle, in addition to waterfowl, endangered species and grassland bird information for landscape-level restoration projects. In addition, the St. Croix WMD is partnering with the National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, WI DNR and MN DNR on landscape-scale management in the St. Croix Valley and Northwest Sands. The work proposed here will inform landscape-level partnership restoration projects.
